4 results for: La Roche, Frank
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Portrait of Colonel Granville O. Haller, Seattle, circa 1880
Granville Owen Haller (1819-1897) was a U. S. Army officer who served in the Florida, Mexican, and Civil wars before coming to Washington Territory in 1852 with his wife Henrietta M. Haller (1824-1910) and their children, Alice May (Haller) Nichols (1851-1887), George Morris Haller (1852-1889), Charlotte (Haller) McKee (1854-1932), and Theodore Newell Haller (1864-1930). In 1860 they were stationed at…
ID Number:1979.6840.7
Date:Circa 1880
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Portrait of Henrietta Haller, Seattle, circa 1880
Henrietta Maria (Cox) Haller (1824-1910) was born in Ireland, arriving in New York with her parents in 1837. She married U. S. Army officer Colonel Granville O. Haller (1819-1897) and the couple had four children, Alice May Haller Nichols (1851-1887), George Morris Haller (1852-1889), Charlotte Haller McKee (1854-1932), and Theodore Newell Haller (1864-1930). The family moved to Washington Territory in…
ID Number:1979.6840.8
Date:Circa 1880
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July 4th parade at the waterfront, Seattle, July 4, 1891
Just over two years after Seattle's Great Fire, Seattle's July 4, 1891 parade vehicles gathered at the Northern Pacific Railroad's waterfront warehouses. Local businesses, including a bank and a boot store, sponsored some of the carriages. Newsboys from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ride in the large flag-draped vehicle to the lower left. Photographer Frank LaRoche's wagon is in the upper center.This…
ID Number:1995.39.1
Date:1891
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Exterior of C.T. Wernecke fur store, Seattle, circa 1897
Fur trading in the Pacific Northwest dates back to the 1700s. The first raw fur auction in the United States was organized in Seattle in 1898, coinciding with the Klondike Gold Rush, which had started in 1896. Ohio-born Charles Theodore Wernecke had come to Seattle in 1897 and ran a store that bought raw furs, manufactured fur clothing, and catered…
ID Number:SHS2525
Date:Circa 1897